VOLT AGAPEYEV
Was born in 1989, in Ternopil (UA). In 2012 he graduated from Ternopil National Pedagogical University, Institute of Arts, where he studied in the fine arts department. After that, he worked as a graphic designer in various advertising agencies and film productions.
In June 2024, together with Dima Tolkachov, they founded the SPLAV artist-run space
The basis of his multidisciplinary practice is working with ink drawings, murals, installations and media art.
Lives and works in Kyiv.
Personal exhibitions:
2024 — Allow yourself by preventing others, SPLAV, Kyiv;
2023 — Voltives, Ostriv platform, Kyiv;
2023 — Imminently, Mala gallery, Kyiv;
2023 — Is/Not, Dymchuk gallery, Kyiv;
2022 — Autonym, Asortymentna kimnata, Ivano-Frankivsk;
2021 — Asemic Translation, Asortymentna kimnata, Ivano-Frankivsk;
2021 — Adaptogen, online;
2019 — Potlatch, Singulart gallery, Kyiv;
2019 — Deathtopia, Dymchuk gallery, Kyiv;
2018 — Secretion Santa, Singulart gallery, Kyiv;
2018 — Palimpsest, SOPA gallery, Kosice;
2018 — Overcoming, Bunkermuz gallery, Ternopil;
2013 — Workafterwork, Detenpyla gallery, Lviv;
2012 — ХВ ВХ, Bunkermuz gallery, Ternopil;
2010 — Mounds, Prostir 365 gallery, Kyiv
Curatorship projects:
2024 — Enjoying the rustle of black leaves, SPLAV, Kyiv;
2024 — In the middle of a storm, SPLAV, Kyiv;
2023 — Why am I here?, SPLAV, Kyiv.
Selected group exhibitions:
2023 — Shapeshifters, ERSTE Foundation, Vienna;
2020 — Two Dots, kunstmatrix.com;
2020 — Focus Europe, Schafhof, Freising;
2020 — Manifest. The environment of existence, Mironova gallery, Kyiv;
2019 — Let us in together, Cliche, Paris;
2019 — Verbalization, Mironova gallery;
2018 — Values on the Way, LiTE HAUS galerie, Berlin;
2018 — Emergent Tributaries, IZOLYATSIA, Kyiv;
2018 — Pedagogical acts, SKLO art space, Kyiv;
2017 — Revitalization, Bunkermuz gallery, Ternopil;
2017 — The Room, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv;
2015 — Out of Wall, Bunkermuz gallery, Ternopil;
2014 — Casus Pacis, Museum of Street Art, Saint Petersburg;
2013 — 50, Lubomirski Palace, Lviv;
2012 — Abstract Beats, Art Kvartira art centre, Dnipro;
2011 — Les structures bioniques, l’Universite Paris 8, Paris.
Residency Programs:
2023 — Grounding. Invasion (IZOLYATSIA), Ukraine;
2023 — Platform OSTRIV, Ukraine;
2022 — Khata-Maysternya, Ukraine;
2022 — Khvylia, Ukraine;
2022 — Water. Community. Digital form (online);
2022 — Cultural traffic, Ukraine;
2021 — Ruda project, Ukraine;
2021 — Grounding (IZOLYATSIA), Ukraine;
2021 — Hyper Global x Hyper Local (online);
2019 — Artefact x Madatac (online);
2019 — Schafhof, Germany;
2019 — Q21, Austria;
2018 — Košice Artist in Residence, Slovakia;
2017 — Nazar Voitovych Art Residence, Ukraine.
FESTIVALS / SYMPOSIUMS:
2022 — Begehungen Festival, Thalheim;
2021 — Brave Factory, Kyiv;
2020 — MADATAC, Madrid;
2020 — Border space, Mohrytsia;
2019 — Calle Libre, Vienna;
2019 — Border space, Mohrytsia;
2018 — Border space, Mohrytsia;
2009 — Just write my name, Kharkiv.